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• Meet
  The Team Our Clients

   

  Abi Humayun

  Producer

  One half of the dynamic duo that founded Rapport, Abi’s been in the game (so to speak) for a good few years now, never failing to wow clients with conferences and experiential events alike, both here and across the planet. Abi has been lucky enough to have tried her hand in all sorts of sectors, from retail to public sector to Pharma and considers herself a world class event producer – we’re inclined to agree.

   

  Chris Teague

  Producer

  Chris is the other half of the partnership, co-founding Rapport with Abi back in 2007. He swears by his mantra Do Great Things and strives to make the global brands he works with do just that.

  Chris has worked across an eclectic bunch of sectors, including retail, public sector and pharma and no-one would disagree that he has a real passion for what he does, pouring his heart and soul into all his events.

   

  Lisa Porter

  Account Director

  Lisa joined Rapport with a CV no one could argue with, having previously produced experiential events for global brands such as Audi and Mini. Although this is where her wealth of experience lies, she’s no one-trick pony and has since produced events for Rapport for clients such as Capital One. Lisa’s fire and drive to get to the underlying strategy make her an events-force to be reckoned with.

   

  Chris Platt

  Creative Director

  Chris has a bright idea for everything and dedicates his work life to igniting the creative sparks that lead us all to Do Great Things. His specialty is his ability to approach projects from a holistic perspective; you can always rely on Chris to see the bigger picture.

  Chris brings over 12 years experience to Rapport working with brands like Adidas, Blackberry, Orange, Pfizer and Microsoft - across numerous multi-media channels might we add.

   

  Elena Clarke

  Event Manager

  A Rapport stalwart, Ellie has been delivering events for us since back in the day, specialising in conferences and award ceremonies. Ellie has worked across a whole spectrum of brands delivering events from Leeds, to Paris and back again. Rapport’s very own Max Clifford, she looks after our PR, ensuring everyone knows about it when we Do Great Things.

   

  Paul Rose

  Senior Designer

  Paul’s talent knows no bounds and once those creative juices are flowing he can create creative concepts that exist across a whole range of different media channels, all associated with live event experiences of course.

  One day he could be could be designing for online, the next its interactive displays and you look round again and he designing something for print or motion graphics! During his five year stint at Rapport he has worked on projects for clients such as RBS, BAE Systems, Astellas and Capital One.

   

  Laura Baxendale

  Logistics & Support

  Laura’s the central cog in the intricate machine that is Rapport; what would we do without her? Laura provides a helping hand in our design studio, as well as in our events team, being instrumental in pulling together the pre-production on our events. As if that isn’t enough she also keeps all office administrative matters in check and let us tell you she runs a pretty tight ship!
• Think

  Calling All Design Do'ers

  By Paul Rose, 17th February 2012

  

  This summer we will be offering aspiring graphic designers a chance to come and do great things here at rapport.

  The successful applicants will have a passion for design, bundles of enthusiasm, and be willing to get involved in a variety of projects from brand creation to designing content for 3D environments. The placement would typically last 2 weeks.

  This is a fantastic opportunity for a select few to gain experience in a growing creative agency.

  If you're interested feel free drop us an email to say 'hello' with some examples of your work to paul@rapportevents.com

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  Lisa Rockall

  By Paul Rose, 17th February 2012

  

  Yesterday up and coming illustrator, Lisa Rockall popped into the studio to show us some of her fantastic cutout creations. In a world where everyone seems to be increasingly living there lives in the digital space, it's refreshing to see work that doesn't rely on technology to be produced.

  We were excited by the potential of Lisa's work and you can see more of her creations here: http://www.lisarockall.co.uk

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  Rapport and Kellogg's; the start of a beautiful friendship...

  By Elena Clarke, 15th December 2011

  

  As if December wasn't already exciting enough, last week we delivered the annual UK Conference for a new Rapport client, Kellogg's.

  Given the time of year the 'Journey to the North Pole' theme was pretty fitting. We created 3 spaces, Basecamp Cornelius, the nostalgic Kellogg's 'Heritage Tunnel' and the main Conference space, into which we put an enormous 3D Iceberg stage set, we projected images and video content across the entire structure for maximum presentation engagement.

  A workshop in the afternoon contained a talk from 9 times Polar explorer Alan Chambers (who we highly recommend!) and a bespoke interactive activity which was designed to get delegates into the winning mindset, ready for 2012, it was all to play for with a money can't buy prize!

  To finish things off with a bang the room was transformed into the 'Ice Bar' for the evening party, the Ice Bar boasted an illuminated cocktail bar and furniture and entertainment came in the form of a live band and even Bandeoki for those Kellogg's employees who were brave enough to get up and sing along with the band.

  Fingers crossed we hope we can help Kellogg's Do many more Great Things in 2012!

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  Doing Great Things at The UK Event Awards

  By Abi Humayun, 9th December 2011

  

  We are mightily chuffed to report that we picked up not one, but TWO awards at the UK Event Awards at Wembley last week. For the second year running, we were recognised for our involvement in the Astellas Senior Managers Meeting winning the ‘Best Conference’ award. We then picked up the award for ‘Best Corporate Event’ for Capital One’s Vision Day.

  And, to top it all off, we also got into the Guinness Book of World Records for the world’s biggest ‘cheers’. It took a few failed practice runs and a lot of champagne quaffing, but we got there in the end!

  Information on our award-winning events can be seen here and here

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  Doing Great Things for the Planet

  By Abi Humayun, 21st November 2011

  

  Happy days! We are now bona fide, certified BS8901 implementers.

  In plain English this means that we have been deemed to operate in a "sustainable manner" by ensuring that we take an enduring and balanced approach to economic activity, environmental responsibility and social progress relating to events.

  Try fitting that on a business card!

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  Happy Halloween

  By Paul Rose, 31st October 2011

  

  To celebrate Halloween we created this cheeky design for one of Rapport's newest clients, Kelloggs.

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  A Timeline of Your Life

  By Paul Rose, 23rd September 2011

  

  Here at Rapport we love timelines… check out the recent installation we produced for Adidas. So it comes as something of a delight to learn that one of Facebook's shiny new features - announced yesterday by Mark Zuckerberg at F8 - is just that, a timeline of your life.

  The features of the timeline, such as its integration of personal info, photos and what movies and music you've been listening to, will all be explained on more appropriate techie blogs than this but what many might not be aware is where much of its inspiration came from. Particularly its aesthetic and design.

  Enter Nicholas Feltron, a graphic designer based in NYC, Back in 2005 Feltron began documented his everyday life in the minutest detail.

  Covering everything from the taxi fares he paid to his most listened to album, Feltron amassed so much data he produced an annual report which documented his entire life in that year.

  Now, apart from the incredible commitment and attention to detail shown by Feltron to produce such work, what really stands out to us is the beautifully crafted info-graphics which communicate his results. Check out samples from each of his reports (there are six in total, dating from 2005 - 2010) on his website. The work on show was enough to land him a role on the Facebook product design team… a true example of doing great things.
  http://www.facebook.com/about/timeline
  http://feltron.com/

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  Adidas

  By Chris Platt, 23rd September 2011

  

  Here's a glimpse of the new Shard sculpture we have recently designed for adidas, it's a timeline driven piece which tells the story of adidas products at the Olympic Games.

  The story starts in 1928 when the Dassler brothers first started equipping athletes with running shoes and continues right through to present day.

  The shard highlights key adidas stories, including Muhammad Ali's boots from 1960 and the red adidas Sambas worn by Ed Moses whilst being crowned the greatest 400m hurdler of all time.

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  Food. Designed.

  By Laura Baxendale, 23rd September 2011

  

  Andrew Stellitano is a fantastic young talent that we have had the pleasure of meeting.

  He has brought together two of his passions, design and food, to create some wonderful food designs. It is great to see such innovation and creativity. Most notable pieces are his Gucci Tiramisu and his work with Bompas and Parr on Nike 78. We hope to be utilising his talents at an event soon!

  Check out his work at http://www.astarism.co.uk/

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  Recent Inspiration

  By Chris Teague, 21st September 2011

  'Fablab' is right on our door step and an amazing drop in facility where you can bring anything from design to prototype with the help of technology and hardware. Whilst there we saw 3D printing in action and it's incredible. Watch the video clip on the left to get an idea of what it is and what it can do.

  Then to get an idea of how it can be used watch the clip showing how Google have used it to integrate with their new 'Uncover Your World' app — its given us ideas about integrating the virtual world with the real environment:

  • http://bit.ly/p0PWWs
  • http://bit.ly/oEPjbS

  Other inspiration we've recently seen are:

  Converse These clips are great examples of how people and their actions can influence an environment they're in: http://bit.ly/pVeWps

  VW Speed Camera Lotto A great example of how adding an element of fun can help a message hit home: Speed Camera lotto: http://bit.ly/ilbUJx

  Cardboard office Finally this shows how a cheap accessible material can be used to create nice environments — with the FabLab in mind we could all do exactly this: http://bit.ly/mkd7Sz

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  Do Great Things: recognised

  By Abi Humayun, 2nd September 2011

  

  Great news!

  We are finalists in three categories for this year’s UK Event Awards. Following on from our success last year when we won the Best B2B Event and were ‘Highly Commended’ in the Best Small Event for the Astellas Senior Managers Meeting in Paris – this year we get to defend our crown. On top of this, we’re also finalists in the Best Corporate Event category for the recent Capital One teambuilding event.

  Both events have been widely recognised within those businesses as inspiring people to ‘Do Great Things’ so it’s great that they are receiving recognition externally too.

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  Doing Great Things for the Olympics

  By Abi Humayun, 1st September 2011

  

  As the Olympic Games embody the very essence of ‘Do Great Things’, we’re delighted to have secured an exciting new contract to deliver an Olympic retail launch for a tier 1 sportswear sponsor. The launch will be held at the training base for Team GB in less than two weeks time. We’re particularly excited about our bespoke ‘legacy’ sculpture that we’ve designed in-house.

  Keep watching this space for photos in a few weeks!

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  Lego Dog = Great Campaign

  By Chris Platt, 2nd August 2011

  

  I've just seen this and I'm gutted we didn't think of it.

  What a great excuse to have some fun with everyone's favourite childhood toy.

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  Do Great Things

  By Chris Teague, 1st August 2011

  

  In the spirit of 'Do Great Things', this weekend a team of seven completed the 'Way of the Roses', coast to coast bike ride.

  Our start point was the famous Art Deco Midland hotel in Morecambe and 3 days later we ended our 170mile trek in Bridlington. We were inspired along the way by some of the UK's most beautiful countryside and we experienced first hand, friendly and down to earth Yorkshire hospitality. Three days on the open road is the perfect escape from today's fast paced digital society and is a trip we highly recommend.

  Low points were climbing Rye Loaf Hill & Nidderdale Moorland and highlights were the villages immediately following each hellish climb (Burnsall & Pateley Bridge). We're now working on our next 'Do Great Things' challenge...

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  The QR Code Experiment

  By Chris Platt, 8th July 2011

  

  The question is can you create a QR code from post it notes and get it to work? Well the answer is no, well not for the time being anyway, we're still working on it. We thought we'd show you our efforts anyway as we think it looks pretty good.

  It says 'Do Great Things' by the way.

  You can generate you own code here:

  http://www.qrstuff.com/

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  I ❤ NSKYC

  By Chris Platt, 5th July 2011

  

  We've just come across this site that captures the New York skyline every 5 mins, it then works out the average colour.

  Some dude called Mike Bodge has put it together.

  Great work!

  You can check it out here.

  http://www.nskyc.com

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  Things that have inspired us this week

  By Paul Rose, 24th June 2011

  

  This morning we've held another ideas & inspiration workshop and these are some of the things we shared. First a fantastic video on finding inspiration itself http://bit.ly/j1A8jO. We then sought some inspiration around Glastonbury and we stumbled upon the concept of suburban campsites — what a fantastic idea and could be a great brand experience www.suburbancampsite.com. Speaking of fantastic ideas, the guys and (surprisingly) the girls at Rapport loved the idea of 'Trunk Club' www.trunkclub.com — shame the concept hasn't crossed the atlantic just yet, but imagine the convenience when it does.

  We also enjoyed looking at these examples of clever street art http://bit.ly/jfp8Ac and having just delivered Capital One's Vision day which was based around producing virals we thought we'd share this fine example http://bit.ly/cRnGEf. Finally we love this http://dearphotograph.com, a photographic project which asks people to take a picture of a picture from the past in the present and then write a simple sentence that describes the project.

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  Capital One.

  By Chris Teague, 10th June 2011

  

  On Thursday we helped 800 Capital One associates bring their vision to life...and boy did they rise to the challenge, producing over 60 virals in a challenge called 'Can you cut it'. We now have the task of shortlisting the best and the process is splitting the judging here at Rapport.

  The whole project's been thoroughly enjoyable and personally very satisfying. The feedback from attendees has been magnificent, some saying it was the highlight of their career to date and senior leaders saying the business is buzzing and the feedback overwhelmingly positive.

  Highlights for me were seeing the attendees whole heartedly getting stuck into the task and producing virals worthy of TV. Another highlight was working with Alex zane - Alex was our host and I have to say he was a delight to work with, professional, engaging and an all round top guy.

  June 16th will live long in the memory of the associates and it's gone some way to inspire them to do great things.

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  Climb Snowdon, just check the weather first.

  By Elena Clarke, 9th June 2011

  

  Like most good ideas it all started in the pub, one Friday night back in March Adam said: "I was thinking for my 30th I might climb Snowdon, what do you think?" Me: "Amazing idea Adam, I'd definitely be up for that". Two months later...

  You'd forgive us for thinking that in May the weather at the top of a mountain might be 'fair', some of us even sported jeans for the climb, but no the rain was torrential, the winds were gale-force and the temperature was sub zero. Despite it all spirits were high and we kept in mind that we were ticking an experience off the list, celebrating a birthday doing something pro-active, rather than doing an all-dayer and a wood-burning stove and more to the point, a lot of alcohol was waiting for us in the house we'd hired back on sea level.

  The highlight of the trip was having the whole of the cafe at the top of Snowdon singing happy birthday to Adam, the low point quickly followed this when we found out the train we'd planned to get back down from the cafe had stopped running due to 'adverse weather conditions'.

  Anyway, we made it down alive and learnt something that day that they don't tell you at the till in Sports Direct; the term 'water-proof' only extends to a certain point (like a rain-shower in Salford) and does not necessarily apply when up a mountain.

  and no trip is complete without trying to make it trend on Twitter, so if you want to join our discussion its #WET.

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  Bremner, Giggs and Insider.

  By Elena Clarke, 8th June 2011

  Everyone's favourite 09's impressionist Rory Bremner hosted an award ceremony for us last week, in between what can only be described as dad-jokes he did pull a few classics out of the bag; Nelson Mandela and William Hague had most of the crew laughing and if you can make the crew (who have seen and heard it all before, twice) laugh, you know you're winning. Call me crazy but I also appreciate a few risque quips thrown into the mix just to add that element of danger, so I can watch the client reaction and he didn't disappoint. There were a few Giggs-related one-liners (in a room full of Mancs) and mickey-takes out of event sponsors which sailed close to the wind

• Do

  • Joanne's Story

    Kelloggs

  • Mark's Story

    A Global Client

  • Mike's Story

    A Global Client

  • Jenny's Story

    Astellas

  • Chris's Story

    Astellas

  • Louise's Story

    Ikano

  

  ‘I experienced what it was like to go to the North Pole.’

  Joanne Kelloggs UK

  

  The Brief

  To inform 350 Kellogg's UK Employees of the 12 month business plan, unite them to feel proud of their heritage and the strong brand they work for and provide a platform for interaction between different divisions and the European Leadership team.

  The Solution

  We developed an event identity which provided a strong theme that the employees could identify with and would continue to be motivated by post event. An experiential tunnel saw the employees using UV torches to discover historic advertising and poignant quotes, while listening to nostalgic adverts and jingles, this took them back to their roots and reminded them of past success. In the main room Projection Mapping content across a huge 3D stage fully immersed the audience in the plan, encouraging real interactivity through Q&A and workshop sessions.

  The Result

  The European President said it was the 'best Conference he'd been to in 10 years' and 88% of attendees felt they left the conference with a stronger belief in the Kellogg's brand and with a winning mindset for 2012. Employees felt fully informed of the route the business would take in 2012 and an illustrative scribe, produced during the event, hangs in the Kellogg's Manchester HQ, reminding  them of key messages and presentations. 

Meet Rapport, we are an ideas led events
agency based in the heart of Manchester.

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audience and capture their imagination is
ultimately what will inspire them to
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